Okay, here's the thing. I am using Dragon dictate inside a Java app. Dictation works great (in fact, I'm dictating with it right now), and a few of the commands work too, but apparently Dragon does not provide so-called "Full Text Control" (FTC) support for Java applications. This sucks though because my main translation app is a Java app.

So I had the following idea: if I need to do anything complicated, I could create an AHK script that would:

• select all text in the text box in my translation app (CafeTran)
• open notepad
• paste clipboard into that

At this stage, I would have "Full Text Control", and be able to access all of Dragon's commands (select, go to, move around, etc.). When finished here, I'd press a shortcut, which would continue my AHK script:

• select all the now edited text in notepad
• Alt+Tab (or via some other method) back to my translation app
• paste the edited text back into the text box.

So this is the rough idea. Can anyone here give me a few pointers on how to create this script?

• select all text in the text box in my translation app (CafeTran)
• open notepad
• paste clipboard into that

One important step is missing: copy selected text to the Windows clipboard.

Anyway, Multifultor can perform all 4 steps automatically. See the manual, section 14 and don't feel unsure because of the word "glossary" there . A glossary in Notepad is just a plain text. So you can force MF to enter yor selected text snippet into Notepad and call this snippet "glossary entry". Sounds strange but is very simple.

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